Selected ski tours in region
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Westliche Simonyspitze 3488 m
Essener-Rostocker Hütte Venedigergruppe - Hohe Tauern Austria
- Length of ascent5 km
- ascent1400 m
- duration6,5-8,5 h
- Fitness difficulty ♦♦♦◊
- Technical difficulty ♦♦♦◊
Westliche Simonyspitze is a great alpine ski tour with a view of the Dreiherrnspitze. First, it rises to Reggentörl. Short downhill and follow the Umbalkees Glacier up. The ascent to the top is usually without skis. Downhill is great especially for firn.
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Grosser Geiger SW 3360 m
Essener-Rostocker Hütte Venedigergruppe - Hohe Tauern Austria
- Length of ascent7,5 km
- ascent1090 m
- duration5,5-7 h
- Fitness difficulty ♦♦♦◊
- Technical difficulty ♦♦♦◊
Favorite ski tour from Essener-Rostocker Hütte. Climbing the Grosser Geiger from the south leads along the Maurerkees glacier. At 2650 meters, the route turns north-westward and heads a rather steep slope towards the flat upper glacier. There is skidepo under the top pyramid. On the top of the undemanding terrain in crampons and ice axe. Follow the same route to hut.
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Grossvenediger N (Kürsinger H.) 3666 m
Kürsinger Hütte Venedigergruppe - Hohe Tauern Austria
- Length of ascent8 km
- ascent1230 m
- duration6-7 h
- Fitness difficulty ♦♦◊◊
- Technical difficulty ♦♦♦◊
Grossvenediger is significant, pyramidal peak, the fourth highest mountain in Austria in in the centre of glaciated mountains in the mountain group Venedigergruppe in the Hohe Tauern. Ski tour from Kürsinger Hütte leads almost all the glaciers, over the saddle Venedigerscharte. In the finish is a short walk from the skidepot and with the crampons and axe comes with an easy ridge to the summit.
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Rostocker Eck 2749 m
Essener-Rostocker Hütte Venedigergruppe - Hohe Tauern Austria
- Length of ascent km
- ascent550 m
- duration h
- Fitness difficulty ♦♦◊◊
- Technical difficulty ♦♦◊◊
Rostocker Eck is a warm-up ski tour near the Essener-Rostocker Hütte. it is a tour, usually rising up the northern slope and descending the southern slope. Excellent lookout tower 550 m above the hut.
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Keeskogel 3291 m
Kürsinger Hütte Venedigergruppe - Hohe Tauern Austria
- Length of ascent3 km
- ascent830 m
- duration3-4,5 h
- Fitness difficulty ♦♦◊◊
- Technical difficulty ♦♦♦◊
A shorter skitour on the lookout Keeskogel provides a fantastic panorama of the whole area of the main alpine ridge. Hohe Tauern at your fingertips - Grossvenediger, Grosser Geiger and Schlieferspitze. Final exposed ridge climbing requires little skill, dificulty I to II. UIAA. Much depends on snow conditions.
Selected Mountain huts in region
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Essener-Rostocker Hütte
Venedigergruppe - Hohe Tauern Austria
5 tours in region2208 m.n.mCapacity 114 bedsOpen March - beginning May
Essener-Rostocker Hütte is a classic mountain hut above the Virgental valley with many ski glacier tours to the surrounding 3000 peaks - Grosser Geiger., r. Happ, Dreiherrnspitze, Westliche Simonyspitze, Mittlere Malhalmspitze und Rostocker...
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Kürsinger Hütte
Venedigergruppe - Hohe Tauern Austria
4 tours in region2457 m.n.mCapacity 150 bedsOpen mid march - end may
Kürsinger Hütte is a huge, yet charming hut at the end of the Sulzbachtal valley in the mountain village of Venedigergruppe in Hohe Tauern NP. Excellent for glacier tours around. The disadvantage is very long access to the hut, in the sprin...
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